Hacks may be causing weird side-effects

[resmc]

I really love all of your hacks, however (I don't mean to complain) I seem to be experiencing some weird side-effects which I suspect may be caused by your hacks. Here is the list of your hacks I am currently using
(I'm not sure what the hacks themselves are called, but here are the file names):
-abort bedmaking
-amnesia fix
-"anti-baby" lecture
-"asprechargetweak"
-authorized personel only
-baby contol
-breakup fix
-call over
-captain hero
-carpool fix
-clothing tool
-clothing tool-globals
-coffee cup hack
-daily gardener
-doorbell quieter
-encourage gratification
-enemies accumulate
-faster buy clothes
-ffs debugger
-fire mod
-front door hack
-ghost buster
-hugging hack
-interact wogregret
-later bedtime
-less whiny
-lobo nanny
-"ltwvariety"
-manual navigation
-marriage post-mortum
-marriage traditional
-money order
-nmefix
-no 20k handouts
-no age discrimination
-no "aging swarm"
-no auto email
-no baby harassment
-no "bogartingswings"
-no "buskers"
-no cheering hack
-no corrupted death
-no cry babies
-no drop tired baby
-no eat cr*p
-no "gizmo" wants
-no rabbit spin
-no random crush
-no random flirt wants
-no resurresct wants
-no retired job spam
-no reunion memory
-no route fail
-no shock for outgoing
-no smart milk drag
-no stranger dance
-no telepathy
-no "teleport puddle"
-no turn off computer
-novel progress
-no what's this
-pay at box
-phone hack
-piano fix
-pool hack
-romance mod
-save the trees
-scanner gun hack
-"skillinator"
-sleep clock
-sshack
-stereo hack
-the fight club
-tipping fix
-toasting hack
-vg-finnish game
I have no expansion packs, but I have been using SimPE and InSimenator for a while w/o insident.

[Brynne]

You will need to provide a bit more information for JM to even begin to know how to answer you. What side effects are you having? Be specific.

 
edited quickly to correct embarrassing mistake

Oops! I thought I found this in Retardo Land, and was confused as to why you would post this there. What the hell is wrong with me???
I've been spending too much time in Retardo Land, I think.
Oh, and now my answer above seems a bit rude. Don't mean to come off that way, I just removed the portion of the post where I had put the smileys and picked on you a bit. 
No offense!

[Myth]

In The Podium the seond sticky thread is called "Official NL List" and list all the hacks that have been found compatible so far with NL.  Try comparing the official list with what you have. 

Also I second what Brynne said, that you need to post specific errors.  It may help someone pin point your problem more.

[Inge]

Of course, he *does* need to know what the weird effects are, at the least

[resmc]

Oh, I make a mistake and forgot to mention my actual problems, b/c I had posted this at another site who recomended me to ask JMP. (*smacks self in forehead*)
 Okay, here goes: I have recently downloaded and installed many JMP hacks, and I have noticed that some of my sims (I haven't checked if every house has this problem) either don't have any wants, or when a want is fufilled, a new one doesn't appear in its place. I have also noticed that the option to throw a party on the phone is not appearing. I know that i meet all of the requirements of throwing a party (ie. know sims, PC can support more sims on lot, etc.). I believe that the hacks may be the cause of these.


EDIT:Looking over the list, i have realized that I have at least one hack ("buskers")that is meant for Uni, which I don't have. I will see if uninstalling this will solve the problem. I also don't have NL.

[Venusy]

I can see a few problems right away:

Remove ltwvariety from your game. Lifetime Wants are a Uni/NL feature, so that mod isn't necessary. I don't think the Skillinator works properly with no EPs, and you're missing some items required for it to run anyway. The sshack and the nogizmowants are more Uni fixes, so remove those. And make sure your phone hack is the oldest version available.

EDIT: noresurrectwants is another Uni hack. And you don't need to censor the crap in noeatcrap.

[resmc]

Okay, thanx, Venusy. I will remove these when i get home, and update. 

[resmc]

Upadate: Have uninstalled (well, deleted) the mentioned hacks (Itwvariety, nogizmowants, sshack, nobusker, noressurectwants,skillinator), and still have problem. I also have discovered a new (though possibly unrelated, but not likely) symptom: When I try to make smartmilk, the sim stops making it, but the sound effects continue. I managed to get the milk once, but the "jump" (I am pretty sure that is the correct term) happened later, before the sim fed the bottle to my toddler. This always causes the smartmilk to disappear. Any help or thoughts on this would be most apreciated.

[Brynne]

Can you turn on debug mode and attach an error log for the jump? That may help some here figure it out.

[resmc]

Yet another update: Now my sim "Enabledtrue" herself seems to be bugged (or corrupted, or something like that...). Whenever she does a new command, either the command box disappears, or she will start doing it then suddenly stop and just stand there, and all items she is holding will disappear. This has caused several smartmilk bottles and a thinking cap (or a "Smart Person's cap with a Lightbulb") to disappear.

P.S. I am hesitant to use debug mode b/c I have recently been experiencing bad interactions with boolProp and some hacks.

[J. M. Pescado]

You seem to be experiencing bad interactions, period. In for a penny, in for a pound.

[Baddmark]

Have you patched your game? It sounds very "jump buggish".

[resmc]

I realized I forgot to delete "noeatcrap". Deleteing this seems to solve this jumping problem, but the wants problem (or lack thereof) still remains. Apparently the game works much better when my sims eat crap.
Baddmark:I don't believe I have a lot of patches. How do I check for installed patches? I know there is a cheat or something that displays available patches...

[Brynne]

Go to the Official site for that:

                  http://thesims2.ea.com/update/

[resmc]

Downloading patch now (will take about a hour b/c I have dial-up ) thanks for the link, Brynne.

Edit:Will now take well over 2 hrs to download patch. I can't wait to get high-speed internet.

[Brynne]

No problem. Hope it fixes things for you...

[resmc]

I have now downloaded the patch, however, when I try to install it, an error occurs. What is going wrong. Error says:Error during update installation.

[Brynne]

Do you have a modified .exe file? I think the patch won't install correctly over that.

[resmc]

Not to sound stupid or anything, but what is a modified ".exe" file? How do I check if I have one?

[baratron]

You seem to be being helped already, but I was just wondering whether you have the InSimenator and the MATY hacks installed together, because some versions of the InSimenator don't play nicely with other hacks. It would be very helpful to tell people which version & flavour pack (if appropriate) of the InSim you're running.

Also, almost all the MATY hacks that are compatible with The Sims 2 only require that you have the second Sims 2 official patch installed - the one that is currently on the site as "Sims 2 patch" when you go to http://thesims2.ea.com/update/. Make sure you get the correct version - the CD version if your game came on 4 CDs, or the DVD version if your game came on 2 DVDs.   

A .exe file is an executable program - basically, the program that runs to start TS2. If it's been modified it means it's not identical to the version that was originally installed off the CD or DVD. This would happen if you had, for example, already run the patch. Have you ever downloaded & installed one of the TS2 patches from the official site? The first patch had a lot of problems, apparently, and they had to withdraw it and make a new one.

As for checking whether your .exe file has been modified, go to C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSBin and look at the date stamp on the Sims2.exe file. Mine  says 20th January 2005, which means that I have the second patch installed. If yours says something like October 2004, you probably don't. 

[resmc]

Yes I do have InSimenator installed

[baratron]

See updated post above.
1) Which version number & flavour pack of InSim are you running? There are about 2000 different versions (only slight exaggeration!).
2) Is your game patched with the second patch?

Edit:
OK, I don't have all of the hacks you have. However, according to the RTFM files for the ones I do, the following are incompatible with the base game only:
-amnesia fix
-clothing tool
-clothing tool-globals
-coffee cup hack *see below
-"ltwvariety"
-money order
-no "buskers"
-no "gizmo" wants
-no resurresct wants
-sleep clock
-sshack *see below
-tipping fix

There may be others - I don't currently have the motivation to download the .zip files of hacks I don't have to read the RTFMs for them. Sorry .

Bemused by you having to take out noeatcrap - the RTFM for that one says it's ok with TS2 only.

There exist Old versions of the
- coffeecuphack
- outfitplanner
- phonehack
- sshack
which can be obtained from here - these are the versions to install if you don't have Uni.

[resmc]

1) I have InSimenator (UV) 2[1].1 (that's what the file name says anyway)

2)I don't have any other patches.

[Brynne]

Okay, so what is the time stamp on your .exe file? Do you have a censor blur-remover? That may also have modified your .exe, depending on which one you have.
Have you tried running the game without Inseminator, btw? There's a newer edition now that fixed a lot of bugs. It's universally compatible. You may want to switch to that one, anyway. And make sure you only have one version of the Insiminator installed.

http://www.insimenator.net/viewtopic.php?t=403   

[resmc]

The time stamp on my game is  (at least the "properties" says)
Modified and created Tue,August 17,2004, and the "Original File name" is "Sim2.exe". Is this the time stamp and is this then.exe file you are talking about?
the censor blur is technically turned on (at least in SimPE>Extra>Preferences>Game Settings> the "blur nudity" box is checked), but in the game, I unfortunately have to see naked sims without any blurring.
Will try game w/o InSimenator (at least while I am downloading the latest version.)